Summary
Martijn Roo is a Senior Engineering Manager in Berlin with 12 years of experience building and leading data platform teams at home24. He blends hands-on engineering—having worked as a data engineer and senior data engineer—with leadership, splitting time between coding and people management to drive product direction and technical prioritization. His team replicated operational data from SAP into a cost-efficient, low-maintenance data lake and warehouse, moving 200+ tables daily and improving reliability through automated retries and flexible compute orchestration. Trained in distributed systems at TU Berlin, Aalto and University of Twente, he brings deep expertise in Scala/Spark, infrastructure-as-code and cloud orchestration while maintaining a pragmatic focus on reducing operational overhead.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Twente
Master of Science (MSc) EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services, Master of Science (MSc) EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services at Aalto University
Master of Science (MSc) EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services, Master of Science (MSc) EIT Digital Master School - Distributed Systems and Services at Technische Universität Berlin
English, Dutch, German